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If Russia is allowed to overrun Ukraine, Ukraine will become another Gaza. Netanyahu has demonstrated that you can commit repeated atrocities and still receive the support of successive US presidents. I fear that Gaza will be the model for future occupations.

submitted 18 hours ago • 76 comments

Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.

submitted 11 hours ago • 98 comments

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

submitted 10 hours ago • 1966 comments

There is no level of dumb this man cannot reach.

submitted 9 hours ago • 128 comments

The UK lost 457 lives, experienced a further 616 casualties, and spent £32.8bn in Afghanistan after the US triggered NATO Article 5 following 9/11. Not to mention Iraq.

submitted 15 hours ago • 33 comments

If you're wondering what happens when a democracy slides into authoritarianism, here it is! truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

submitted 14 hours ago • 160 comments

Woke up this morning thinking about the fact that three autocratic, anti-democratic regimes—the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America—now constitute a majority of the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council.

submitted 1 day ago • 242 comments

Couldn’t agree more

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I am sorry to be cynical but I've come to think it's how Britain works: the purpose of these things is to convey a perception, but only a perception, that we want to expose wrongdoing. The truth is, I assume because we think public confidence in our institutions is more important, we really don't.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Not surprised that Farage continues to tell blatant lies about the immigration system. But absolutely disgraceful BBC report this verbatim without pointing out it's complete BS. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

The amount of corruption is staggering, approaching Russian levels. Then again, this is "convergence", just unlike what anyone ever imagined in the Cold War.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I, for one, don’t doubt the sincerity of Trump supporters’ views regarding the importance of respectful attire in federal buildings.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

And definitely should not go to an America 🇺🇸 plus Trump and Musk that cuts funding to science and appears to pay scant regard to data security

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 2 days ago • 1906 comments

Note the last clause.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This is an excellent letter. And she's right that, when it comes to rebuilding the armed forces, "it will be impossible to raise the substantial resources needed just through tactical cuts to public spending".

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Katharine Birbalsingh is consistently wrong about a lot of stuff. I first clashed with her over her daft comments on why "girls don't like physics" but she's only got more wrong since.

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

This is simply obscene.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

What more evidence do we need - Drill Baby Drill is for the fantasists, the real economy is the green one - the sooner we get there the better for all of us (other than oil barons and petrostate dictators..:)

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

I am disgusted at this backtracking on Climate commitments by some of the world's biggest polluters. Those obligations were to make future generations more secure. But that doesn't increase profits for greedy shareholders.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

1. European and UK ministers are still talking as if their biggest potential security problem is a withdrawal of US support. But that is not their biggest potential security problem. It’s that, under Trump, the US will back Putin not just diplomatically but also militarily. 🧵

submitted 11 days ago • 115 comments

‘There Is Nothing ‘Natural’ About Donald Trump’s Predatory Exploitation of Ukraine’ The US President’s attempts to extort Ukraine for its natural resources, while abandoning its fate to Russia, is a return to the worst imperial politics of the past @bylinetimes.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4bfu83u

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Nothing scary about this then

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

UK stock market is a destructive cash extraction machine. In 2024, listed-companies paid £86.5bn in dividends. Top 100 alone paid another £56.9bn in share buybacks. In 2024, companies raised £3.4bn in new shares; £953.7m in 2023. UK ranked 28 out of 31 OECD countries for investment.

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

The author of this article, trying to make out that we “misunderstood” the disgraceful lying words that came out of Trump’s mouth and “misinterpreted” his actions in excluding Ukraine from peace negotiation with his typical bullying stance, is Sam Bessant the US Treasury secretary

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Ghent by night ♥️

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 10 days ago • 82 comments

In a scary week, this from George Monbiot is one of the most terrifying things I’ve read.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve met with President Zelenskyy and members of his government. They are strong, honorable allies. Minnesota stands with the people of Ukraine as they fight to defend freedom and democracy. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 13 days ago • 386 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 13 days ago • 923 comments

A Trump shill on Newsnight claims there are more people in prison in UK jails for freedom of speech violations than in Putin’s Russia. These people are radicalised, insane, plain stupid or some combination of all three.

submitted 14 days ago • 195 comments

This is, remarkably, more unpleasant when you read the article than the top line would suggest.

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

submitted 17 days ago • 2046 comments

A welcome antidote to the xenophobic nonsense about "low-wage" migrant workers that floods the opinion pages of the Telegraph and Times. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

💥 I’ve just signed the petition calling for a “National Commission on Electoral Reform” - Will YOU sign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/nc...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

What an idiot. This level of projection would knock Sigmund Freud off his chair.

submitted 18 days ago • 307 comments

“Europe will not be part of Ukraine-Russia peace talks, US envoy says” Shocking, but the bigger question is - what does it have to do with the US? If they are not actively there to help Europe & Ukraine… then they are in these talks on the side of themselves and Russia. That’s the reality now.

submitted 17 days ago • 109 comments

This is a MUST READ

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

I outline our plan for our new defence bank www.thetimes.com/article/265b...

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ti...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 19 days ago • 525 comments

Military historian Sir Antony Beevor on Times Radio on Trump-Putin: "We should always distrust historical parallels, especially those from WW2...but there is a really very frightening echo of the betrayal of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and the idea that one can deal over the heads of a suffering nation"

submitted 19 days ago • 21 comments

🔴Keir Starmer Urged to Back Law Blocking Foreign Billionaires Like Elon Musk From Bankrolling UK Political Parties bylinetimes.com/2025/02/12/k...

submitted 19 days ago • 19 comments

Ukraine did not choose “to go into this war” you utter fuckwit and embarrassment to America. Russia unlawfully invaded Ukraine and you are such a coward you are planning to reward Russia with Ukrainian land. You first, fuckwit. Hand over Mar-o-Lago to Putin

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

Fine, accurate and chilling words by a lad at the top of his game.

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

💥 I’ve just signed the petition calling for a “National Commission on Electoral Reform” - Will YOU sign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/nc...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments